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‘A real issue’: Lawyers risk fines in Treasury crackdown on tax evasion

Lawyers could face harsher penalties for enabling tax avoidance schemes under new proposals from the Treasury.

HMRC yesterday (17 August) launched a consultation to punish those who assist tax avoidance schemes that are defeated. The document states new measures should ‘send a strong deterrent signal to all those involved in, or considering, tax avoidance’.

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